LESS IS MORE

We are committed to sustainable energy use. That’s why we’ve pushed
our operations to take advantage of alternative forms of energy for
our breweries, logistics fleets and at the wholesale level. Since
2008, we’ve been able to reduce our energy use by more the 25 percent.
Today, more than 11 percent of our energy is generated from renewable
resources. And that’s just the beginning.

Here are some examples of how our state-of-the-art breweries are
sourcing energy in innovative ways:

Bio-Energy Recovery Systems (BERS)

Anheuser-Busch is the world’s largest operator of BERS, a method of
turning the nutrients in wastewater from the brewing process into
renewable biogas. Used at ten of our U.S. breweries, this process is
responsible for generating approximately 8 percent of our fuel needs.
Our communities also benefit from our use of BERS technology because
it lowers the electricity demand on community wastewater treatment
facilities by reducing organic material in the leftover water.
Substituting biogas for fossil fuels also reduces brewery emissions of
carbon dioxide and reduces other air pollutants that would result from
community wastewater treatment facilities.

Landfill Gas

This alternative fuel option reduces the use of fossil fuels. That’s
why more than 60 percent of our Houston, TX brewery’s steam
requirements are supplied by capturing the biogas emitted from
decomposing materials at area landfills.

Solar and Wind Power

Solar arrays are located at our Newark, N.J., Fairfield, CA, and
Cartersville, GA breweries as well as installations at our Eagle
Packaging plant and our corporate offices in St. Louis. At peak
production, the arrays provide 2.7 MW of electricity. The renewable
energy from these arrays is sold to third parties.

Note: In 2014, we commissioned a second wind turbine for our
Fairfield, CA brewery. With the additional turbine online, the
Fairfield brewery has the ability to produce more energy that it
consumes, and exports the extra power back to the electrical grid.

Nutri-Turf Farms

Located near the Jacksonville, FL and Fort Collins, CO breweries,
Anheuser-Busch’s Nutri-Turf farms apply nutrient-rich leftover water
from the brewing process to help grow crops.

Transportation Logistics

We utilize our logistics planning systems to completely fill out
each load to the legal limit, partner with over 30 other companies to
share empty trailer space and eliminate empty miles, and constantly
look to engineer solutions to service customer demand with the fewest
miles possible.

To reduce greenhouse gas emissions, our Houston brewery converted
their entire fleet to 23% cleaner-burning Compressed Natural Gas
engines. We have tripled the use of intermodal transportation over the
past four years and recently added capabilities into the St. Louis
brewery to ship train cars full of beer eliminating the need for up to
four trucks per rail car shipped.